Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.